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Know Thy Pants: Building a Sustainable Supply Chain from Seed to Sale

Michael Kobori, Vice President of Global Supply Chains at Levi's speaks with the Ceres Podcast about how Levi's is incorporating environmental and labor challenges into its sourcing decisions in order to create a more sustainable supply chain for its products.

(November 21, 2008) Chances are your pants have probably been more places than you have. From cotton grown in India, zippers manufactured in China and apparel factories in the Dominican Republic, the apparel industry relies on a complex and sophisticated series of relations to get their clothes to a store near you - the global supply chain. But global supply chains carry serious environmental and labor challenges that apparel and other industries must attend to if they truly want to be sustainable.

Michael Kobori, Vice President of Global Supply Chains at Levi's spoke with the Ceres Podcast about how Levi's is incorporating these issues into its sourcing decisions in order to create a more sustainable supply chain for its products.[Music: Jack Rose, "Linden Ave Stomp" from Two Originals of Jack Rose (VHF, 2004), Photo: ChinaGuccio (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yggg/]